Former Southern baseball coach Roger Cador passed away yesterday at the age of 74. Kace Kieschnick has more.
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The Secretary of State’s voter registration report for July shows that for the first time in Louisiana’s modern history there are more registered Republican voters than Democratic. Joe Gallinaro has the story…
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Legendary former Southern University Baseball coach Roger Cador passed away of brain cancer at the age of 74 yesterday. Cador led the Jaguars baseball team for 33 years after taking over in 1984. Chair of the Southern Board of Supervisors Tony Clayton says he was an ambassador for the school and the first line of defense between kids and the real world.
Cador led the Jags to two HBCU national championships and 14 SWAC championships and was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2022. Clayton says Cador brought global attention to Southern, and he asked him one day how he could bring top recruits like Golden Spikes Award-winner Rickie Weeks to Baton Rouge.
The New Roads native was also a Jaguars student-athlete and played Triple-A baseball with the Braves organization. He earned 13 SWAC Coach of the Year honors and coached 10 All-Americans and 62 MLB Draft Picks. Clayton says the Southern community is mourning an icon and will open the Mini-Dome Monday to honor him.
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Starting tomorrow, the red snapper bag limit will be increased to five fish per person for the Fourth of July weekend. LDWF Secretary Tyler Bosworth says he hopes it will encourage families to get out on the water and enjoy America’s 250th birthday.
The usual bag limit for red snapper is four, and the season lasts until November. Bosworth says fishing typically becomes less popular as we get into winter, so the red snapper population can support some extra harvesting now.
The declaration of emergency will last through this Sunday before reverting back to the normal four-fish limit. Bosworth says he hopes fishing is on the agenda for your Independence Day weekend.
Those who’d like to fish offshore will need a recreational offshore landing permit, which you can get for free on the LDWF website.
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For the first time in the state’s modern history, there are more registered Republican voters than Democratic voters. That’s based on a report the Secretary of State’s office puts out at the beginning of every month. John Couvillon of JMC Analytics and Polling says Democrats were once the dominant party in Louisiana, but over time, they’ve been steadily losing party registrants…
Each party has just over one-million registered voters, with registered Republican voters outnumbering registered Democratic voters by 23-hundred.
Couvillon says the number of registered No Party voters is up to 820-thousand and growing
Couvillon says the decline in registered Democratic voters will make it hard for a Democrat to win a statewide office, unless they defy the odds like former two-term Governor John Bel Edwards…
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Couvillon says at the start of the Biden Administration, there were 225-thousand more registered Democratic voters in the state. That number was down to 55-thousand four years later when President Trump was sworn into office for his second term.
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Attorney General Liz Murrill’s threats to New Orleans officials is now the subject of an investigation by an Orleans Parish grand jury. During a news conference this morning, Murrill said she knew nothing beyond what had been reported by the media.
Earlier this year, Murrill sent letters to Mayor Helena Moreno, five city council members and Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, threatening to remove them from their offices over a special election for a newly-merged clerk of criminal and civil courts. Murrill said she stands by the letters she wrote.
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The city called the special election, which was struck down by the State Supreme Court, after the legislature eliminated the office of Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court and merged that role with that of the clerk of civil court, dictating that the civil court clerk fill the newly-merged role. Murrill pointed out that her job is not to make the law, but rather to defend the law.